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PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 



Special Meeting : 10th April, 1916. 

 Present : Mr. L. Birks, President, in the chair, and two hundred others. 

 Welcome to Captain Ault and staff of survey ship " Carnegie." 



First Meeting : 3rd May, 1916. 



Present : Mr. L. Birks, President, in the chair, and thirty others. 



New Member. — Mr. John Waddell. 



Ex-Presidential Address. — " Surveys : (1) Pioneer, (2) Land Settlement, 

 (3) Engineering," by Mr. A. D. Dobson. 



Second Meeting : 7th June, 1916. 



Present : Mr. L. Birks, President, in the chair, and thirty-five others. 



New Member. — Mr. G. A. Tapper. 



Papers. — 1. ' The Occurrence in New Zealand of C rater ostigmus tas- 

 manicus Pocock," by Mr. G. E. Archey. 



2. " Science in Relation to the Development of Agriculture/' by Mr. 

 L. J. Wild. 



Third Meeting : 5th July, 1916. 



Present : Mr. L. Birks, President, in the chair, and fifty others. 



New Member. — Mr. A. D. Paterson. 



Address. — " Education and our National Requirements," by Mr. G. M. 

 Thomson. 



Fourth Meeting : 19th July, 1916. 



Present : Mr. A. D. Dobson, Vice-President, in the chair, and fifty others. 



Address. — " The Rock Paintings of the South African Bushman, and 

 the Rock Carvings of the Australian Natives," by Mr. J. L. Elmore. 



